Jeff Esposito

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Three Reasons Why Executives Should Tweet For Themselves

Jeff Esposito

In 2009, when I started using Twitter and Facebook for business reasons, I could understand why executives were afraid to join the social media conversation. Most PR executives I worked with in 2009 did not pitch via Twitter, and traditional agencies were just starting to build internal social media teams. It’s simple: They are real.

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30 Social Media Stats for the C-Suite

Jeff Esposito

40% of corporate Twitter accounts engage in some kind of customer service ( Burson-Marsteller ). percent of CMOs say social marketing efforts are effectively integrated into their overall marketing strategy ( MarketingProfs ). 140 Million Tweets are sent each day ( Twitter ). 64 percent of Twitter users are female ( Pew ).

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Executive Social Media – Kat Cole an Executive to Emulate

Jeff Esposito

So excuse me if I was caught in somewhat of a nostalgic time warp yesterday when I saw an article detailing how Kat Cole, former president of Cinnabon, discussed how she leveraged Twitter. ” I would suggest that social media leaders and executives bookmark this article and read through Cole’s strategy and take three things away. .”

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Executive Social Media – Kat Cole an Executive to Emulate

Jeff Esposito

So excuse me if I was caught in somewhat of a nostalgic time warp yesterday when I saw an article detailing how Kat Cole, former president of Cinnabon, discussed how she leveraged Twitter. ” I would suggest that social media leaders and executives bookmark this article and read through Cole’s strategy and take three things away. .”

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Thinking creatively to overcome social roadblocks

Jeff Esposito

March 29, 2012 9:49 am via Twitter for iPhone Reply Retweet Favorite @geoffliving Geoff Livingston. Currently our strategy is X or X network is not going to fit into our current strategy immediately due to the following factors. Why bother trying when you get the same result? Think differently.

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Why should I like your brand?

Jeff Esposito

Without a doubt each one of these stores had a callout to “like them on Facebook,” or to “check-in on foursquare” or to “follow us on Twitter”. Twitter – minimal conversation and mostly push marketing. Now on the surface this is a great thing for social media as it is getting prominent exposure to the general public.

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How I fell into social media

Jeff Esposito

As the meeting closed, our then Vice President of Public Relations tossed the June 2, 2008 edition of BusinessWeek at me with Stephen Baker’s cover story entitled Beyond Blogs which focused on Twitter. It wasn’t love at first sight as Twitter was a new technology that I wasn’t sure could be used for public relations or reputation management.